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Finally, it appears that years of work, persuasion, temptation, pressure and coercion have yielded its fruits, with the publishing (made it into hyper Zionist hate-site Harry’s Place) of the joined statement by Mr Ali Abunimah and a few others, in which they brazenly called upon Palestinians and their supporters to disavow Gilad Atzmon because of his alleged “anti-semitism”.

Here, I cannot help but wonder, what does Ali Abunimah mean exactly when he invites people to disavow Atzmon?

Can this “disavowal” be understood as a modern secular-leftist substituted for the “good old” Judaic concept of Herem?

Are we not entitled to ask then, if that concept of “disavowal” is by any chance related to the Talmudic concept of excommunication, in which “the Talmud forbids coming within six feet of a person who has been excommunicated“?

Ali Abunimah opens his statement with the declaration: “Granting No Quarter“, calling to deprive the accused of any mercy or forgiveness. Such daring harsh words which mean “not to allow someone any mercy” eerily resemble the sinister Kabbalistic invocation of Pulsa diNura, a “ceremony in which the angels of destruction are invoked to block heavenly forgiveness of the subject’s sins”,

It appears, yet again, that some people are determined to thrust us back into the Dark-Ages. Not only do they exhibit severe intolerance towards those whom they disagree with, but also instead of defending their position and “refuting” such disagreeable ideas with logic, factual information and reason, they resort to fight them with unsubstantiated accusations.

Furthermore, they actively and shamelessly participate in barbaric rabbinic medieval type of behaviour, in which they call for the “disavowal” (modern-secular for excommunication) of those whom they perceive as “heretics” for daring to think outside the box or for being crazy enough to talk about taboos and cross the boundaries of “permissible” debate. Amazingly, even those who refuse to abide by such “rabbinical-style” orders are also sentenced for being guilty by association, so they get the excommunication treatment too!

I would like to remind them also that such foreign concept they are trying forcibly to shove down our throats and introduce to our culture under the pretext of “fighting racism”, does not only stand in stark contradiction with the very core ethos of the culture they claim to be defending, but it reflects severe reasoning impotence as well as intellectual incompetence.

Indeed, our culture has suffered heavy blows under the repeated attacks of the past centuries, which caused some disorientation in its vision and practice in our era, however, facts remain;

In our inherited culture, we do not disavow, ostracize or excommunicate, we invite for debate

In our inherited culture, we do not burn books we disagree with, we refute with reason and facts.

In our culture, we do not forbid independent thinking, we encourage إجتهادIjtihad.

In our culture, we do not say “grant no quarters”, we say “ارحموا من في الارض يرحمكم من في السماء”, have mercy on those on earth, the One in Heaven will have mercy on you.

In our culture we oppose double standard, we call it hypocrisy; one cannot pretend to oppose one type of racism (anti-Jewish racism) yet sneakingly participate in the concealment of Jewish anti-gentile racism by blocking information, aborting any debate about it and by silencing and shunning those who attempt to expose it.

In our culture, we refuse to act as lackeys of our oppressors, as they sharpen their knives, we refuse to be ones who lay down on the floor while guiding them where and how to slaughter.

In our culture, we refuse to be fooled by sugar coated vacuous promises, NOT all the shiny teeth we see are necessarily smiles.

Why is it that Ali Abunimah, his mentors and those who approve of his statement are keen to prevent Palestinians and their supporters from examining and analysing the ideology, the motivation and the method of operation of our occupiers?

Do they not realize that by censoring the investigation of motives and modus operandi of the crimes, they implicitly and invariably imply that there is no crimes, i.e they facilitate the normalization and the whitewashing of the crimes?

Are they so naïve as to pretend that if we rub shoulders with a few Post-Zionism activists or Cultural Zionists, singing Kumbaya and hugging each other, we would melt the heart of our oppressors, and we would see them kneeling down, shedding their chosen-ness, arrogance and supremacy and asking for forgiveness, and lo and behold, all of a sudden the paradigm of our world would shift, all our problems as Palestinians would be magically solved, when the “chosen” would embrace us as equals?

Furthermore, why is it that Ali Abunimah and his mentors want to prevent us from looking at, analysing and understanding the level of influence exerted by the Jewish-Zionist lobby, how it is organized and how does it function to acquires such high levels of control and malignant influence?

Why is it that he along with others, are taking part in a campaign that want to divert our attention from looking at issues we can no longer ignore such as the racist fanatical laws implemented hysterically to accelerate the Judaization of Palestine, including the disturbing reality of the extensive level of support of the Jewish state “Israel” by the global Jewish communities?

How can they fantasize that an occupation entity whose ideological foundations are supremacist to the core, with chosen-ness, exceptionalism, specialness, and uniqueness of suffering would suddenly concede to view the un-chosen gentile as equal?

How could they propose to us a solution that would finalize the Zionist project by thinking that loosening the military grip while legitimizing and increasing a civilian/ political/ financial/ educational/ cultural supremacist grip, is good of Palestinians?

Why would any sane Palestinian want to trap his people into placidly and foolishly accepting the finalization of the Zionist project by embracing Post-Zionism with all its supremacists racist attitudes, under the delusion that it might weigh better in the scale of morality than militant Zionism?

“Never forgive, never forget” seems to be “acceptable” and “reasonable” when it is repeated by people of Jewish background, but the gentile-others who suffered and still suffering at the hands of Jewish-Zionist, are labelled as racist anti-Semites if they refuse to lovingly embrace their abusers and pre-forgive their rapists before they even stop their crimes, and before seeing any signs or intention to change of their cruelty, criminality, behaviour and racist attitude.

The death-trap solution presented to us by Ali Abunimah and his cohorts in which they “hope” and “promise” us with a “community founded on justice, where all are free, all are equal andall are welcome“, omitting to mention that such dust in the eyes is not a solution but mere delusion:
Equating abused and abuser is No justice;
Absolving and rewarding criminals is No freedom;
Fantasizing to be accepted as equal with supremacist is No hope;
Claiming “all are free”, when only some have the monopoly of everything is No promise.

Abunimah, continues to further deceive his people, the victims, when he lays the claim that as a prerequisite to having “self-determination”, Palestinians are implicitly asked not only to pre-forgive and grant their oppressors total and unconditional amnesty before they even stop their crimes, but also they are suppose to defend the sensitivities and shield from attacks, the present occupiers and those who support them.
Moreover, the victims of decades of racism are supposed to secure the future of the supremacist victimizers, and to reassure and guarantee the abusers that their crimes don’t matter, no matter what they do, they will always be accepted as equal (though as “chosen” they will be a little bit more equal than others), and their freedom (to continue their oppression, theft, crimes and mischief) will always be granted.

Furthermore, abusing the sincerity and magnitude of Palestinian hospitality, playing with the warmth and tenderness of their emotions and under the deceitful banner of “all are welcome“, Abunimah, the self-claimed “owner of Palestine”, the self-appointed Future-Immigration-Minister, hopes to facilitate the continuous invasion of the supremacist “chosen” occupiers! How amazing! How just! How very generous! How pathetic!

After a century of aggravation, any Palestinian who propagates the fantasy that “Israeli-Jews”, with their artificially-created, ideologically racist, inherently fascist settler society would one day embrace as equals, the Palestinians -whom they brutalised for decades and still do, is at best Naïvely deluded or at worst a traitor, and in both cases he/she would be furnishing their “successful careers” with tiny bodies of little babies slaughtered at the alter of lunatic supremacism, they would be climbing over the bodies of thousands of martyrs, trashing the sacrifices of his own people.

Contrary to the understanding and lopsided logic of Mr Ali Abunimah and his cohorts, discussing and criticising the ideologies, the politics, the aims, and the motivations of some Jewish Zionists or anti-Zionist persons or groups, is NOT anti-Semitic. Such criticism does not occur “simply because they are Jews“:

We criticise their obfuscation of truth, by acting as filterers of information, attempting to prevent people from learning about issues, vital to understanding the Palestinian catastrophe;

We criticise the hysterical manner in which they react against people who attempt to examine and understand the global and powerful Jewish-Zionist networks and lobby, their unrelenting support of “Israel” and it’s ramification on Palestine and the Palestinian cause;

We criticise their hypocrisy in the way they frantically accuse people of racism simply because we expose and oppose one of the ugliest forms of racism, while they turn a blind eye to what we came to know as Jewish racism (no motion is presented to PSC to oppose that kind of racism);

We criticise their irrational performance, appointing themselves as “Thought Police” and “Political Commissars”, Forbidding people from reading what THEY deem unsuitable, or associating with those who THEY condemn to be excommunicated;

We criticise their primitive and tribal behaviour, insisting to protect the interest of Jewish communities despite the irrefutable fact, these communities are by a good majority supportive of “Israel”;

We criticise their insidious protection of the future interest of Jewish-Israeli genocidal occupiers, which is no doubt contrary to International Law and of course contrary to Palestinian interest;

We criticise their pushy dominance on the solidarity movement, and their insistence to steer it and to define its aims and objectives rather than leaving that mainly to Palestinians on whose behalf the campaign was created;

We criticise their irritating arrogance by insisting to impose their definition of words and concepts (like anti-Semitism and Holocaust-denier) leaving no room for other intellectuals to put their case or views;

So, when they come whining and shouting “anti-Semites”, “anti-Semites” whenever confronted with truthful, genuine and scrupulous criticism is not only childish and wasteful, but –and time will tell, is also counterproductive if not destructive, and will only yield more trivialization of the word they have misused and abused so much, namely “anti-Semitism”.

For us who engage in that type of intellectual criticism, the fact that those -whose agenda and actions we criticise, are Jewish is irrelevant, it is absolutely not the issue, they could be of any racial or religious background. What we criticise is THEIR POLITICS and THEIR AGENDA which we redeem more geared to further the interests of Jewish “Israelis” and organizations and communities supporting them, rather than Palestinians, hence it is harmful to Palestine.

The fact that THEY are Jews or define themselves as Jews is extraneous, except in the detail that they USE this reality as a pretext to attack and defame activists and intellectuals who disagree with them and who dare to criticise their agenda. They USE this to excommunicate activists and intellectuals who care deeply about Palestine and whose prime objective is the LIBERATION of Palestine, and whose main concern is the protection of interest of the long-oppressed Palestinians.

Finally, some questions to ponder upon, for those who signed the “disavowal” statement and those who agree with it:

Is it racist to disagree with the politics of some groups when their involvement in politics is based on tribalism?

Is it immoral when a person finds him/herself unable to love his/her torturer and tormentor?

Is it moral to force a person to love and live with the killer of his child?

Is it moral to force a person to marry her rapist?

Is it obligatory that all people must love all the Jews all the time, simply because they are Jews?

Is it racist to dislike some Jews for their bad actions and attitude?

Is this sentence by Gill Kaffash anti-Semitic and racist: “If a Zionist is a Jew, it is anti-Semitic to mention it; if an anti-Zionist is a Jew, it is mandatory to point it out.”?

I hereby denounce and reject in total the adaptation of rabbinical schemes of control within our Palestinian midst and mindset, in which medieval methods of thought terrorism and oppression are exercised; including the “granting of no mercy or forgiveness” against curious free-thinking dissenters, and the use of exclusion of intellectuals from the folds of the “tribe”, as means of punishment for their “sins and crimes”.

I denounce and reject in total any proposal of a “solution” that would trap my people in a status quo scenario, in which the occupiers remove their attire and keep their essence, shed their skin and hold on to their racist supremacist core, declare the end of Zionism (which already has fulfilled its goals), only to continue business as usual.

Wow. Thank you!
For the past two months, I have been working with Trevor LaBonte, in Austin, to set-up a gig for Gilad Atzmin. As time went on and we were unable, it seemed, to find a spot where GIlad would be welcome to discuss his book and Jewish identity politics, I wrote to some members of the (Austin. Central-Texas) Interfaith Council for Palestinian Rights. I expected these people (mostly Unitarian) to be thrilled to host Gilad (and Trevor.) Instead, I received a response from a woman named, Bernice Hecker:

“Gilad Atzmon has been disavowed by the Palestine Rights movement for his racism and anti-semitism. I’ve attached a copy of Ali Abunimah’s article on him.”

I was shocked and am disgusted. This is a pro-Palestine group?!
Now, I have had my own run-in with Ali Abuminah. The guy actually told me, about two and a half years ago, it wasn’t POPULAR to promote Gilad Atzmon! I told him I posted (tweeted, blogged) GIlad’s writing because Gilad is RIGHT, not because it is popular. And then I blocked Ali Abuminah (from my twitter feed.) I wish I had not done so. I wish I had held onto his feed so I could respond to his statements. I will be amending this later.

We will be hosting Gilad, privately, in Austin, because the PSC is responding to Gilad’s tour just like the ADL prigs did, last time he was here. It is quite frustrating. The venue is a public place, but we are using a private room, and we are not posting the location for all to see. Those interested in hearing Gilad speak and play, with Trevor LaBonte, must satisify us that he or she is not attempting to subvert the process before we will provide more info than time and that it is local.
If interested in reading about what we’re dealing with, because of Ali Abuminah, Trevor and I have both posted about it, in The Ugly Truth (www.theuglytruth.wordpress.com) and I have my take on what’s happening in my blog; annebeck58.wordpress.com.

I hope you don’t mind that I am reblogging this wonderful articla and will be passing it on to Gilad, via email. (in case he has not yet seen it.) Thank you, again, for a wonderful point of view.
Just who does Ali Abuminah think he is? In one fell swoop, he gave away the Palestinian right of return (mission statement; BDS) and this is why Gilad and I and many others are disgusted with that entire group. I cannot tell if Ali is evil or if he is a complete and utter fool. In one fell-swoop, Ali Abuminah has destroyed the BDS movement (and I walked away from it for the same reason Gilad did.) Something tells me, Ali is a fool, for as we all know; when one lies down with dogs (ahem), one will catch fleas!

But, I will not stoop to the level of Ali and the rest of the fraudulent pro-Palestine/ Palestine-Solicarity movement.. I will not be posting rumors or conjecture about Abuminah. I wish I could say the same of these PSC tools as far as their statements about Gilad Atzmon is concerned!

It suffice to know that I am barred from commenting on Electronic Intifada and osctracised by some Palestinians who dance to Abunimeh and his consorts’ s tune, including Lina Assa’afin who refuse even to communicate with me, and blocked from her FB, without ever exchange a word with me.

Thank you, Nahida!
It is frustrating to find that PSC and BDS have now worked to close down a presentation by Gilad Atzmon, in Houston! And it is all based on the filthy words of Ali Abuminah, the guy who’s singlehandedly destroying the BDS campaign.
How can so many be so foolish? They read what Ali writes and base their opinion (false though it is) of Gilad Atzmon on this. I must say I don’t comprehend such inane behaviour.

BTW; I didn;t give Abuminah the chance to block me. I preemptively blocked him! Actually, I blocked him because he was harassing me over my stance against BDS. Abuminah thought I was only standing with Gilad Atzmon, when in fact, I was (still) standing with Palestine. Ali has stepped away from Palestine and he cannot understand why I find him despicable. The guy has to be stupid.

[…] Interestingly enough, my latest book The Wandering Who attempts to provide an answer. It elaborates on the Jewish political nature of Israel and its lobbies but it also points at the destructive role of those lobbies within the left, the Anti War Campaign and the Palestinian solidarity movement. Again, I don’t speak about any conspiracy. As far as I am aware, this is all taking place before our very eyes. Abunimah & co kept silent about this affair for almost a year and they probably know why. I guess that they are still searching for something that may look remotely like an argument or even an excuse. After all, It is slightly unusual for Palestinians and Arabs to adopt the most vile Talmudic Herem culture. As Palestinian poet Nahida Izzat suggests, it demands an explanation. […]

[…] Please note, a full review of this matter, written from a Palestinian point of view, as opposed to a Shabbos-Goy-Palestinian point of view, can be researched in the following link: Nahida, the exiled Palestinian, says: Disavow with no mercy? Not in my Name! […]

[…] Interestingly enough, my latest book The Wandering Who attempts to provide an answer. It elaborates on the Jewish political nature of Israel and its lobbies but it also points at the destructive role of those lobbies within the left, the Anti War Campaign and the Palestinian solidarity movement. Again, I don’t speak about any conspiracy. As far as I am aware, this is all taking place before our very eyes. Abunimah & co kept silent about this affair for almost a year and they probably know why. I guess that they are still searching for something that may look remotely like an argument or even an excuse. After all, It is slightly unusual for Palestinians and Arabs to adopt the most vile Talmudic Herem culture. As Palestinian poet Nahida Izzat suggests, it demands an explanation. […]

This guy Ali Abunimah is really SICKENING! I feel baffled there’s Palestinian man as educated as he seems to be has logic & thought process like he has, IT JUST DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE! He sounds like oppresor already, and he doesn’t even have freedom YET in his homeland & he plays like he is somebody that can tell other people what to think what to say??? REALLY??!! I feel really sick abt this, thank you for listening :/

Yes! It is bad enough that we’ve had to deal with the pro-israel jews, in Austin and other parts of Texas, but to now have to go up against those who’re supposed to be on the same side? It is sickening! Since receiving the ugly letter from Bernice Hecker (guess.., of the Interfaith Council for Palestinian RIGHTS???), Ihave had a migraine. Sick almost doesn’t describe how these idiots make me feel.

OOHH MAM :S I really feel you I feel so bugged with this too since I read abt this! I can’t even speak, my head is spinning, how can he think like that :S honestly! For me I don’t give a single crap with the label anti semite crap but when they try to prevent people from doing critical thinking (provide with valid facts be it re judaism teaching or holocost, not just nonsense!) I HAVE PROBLEM with that. He really sounds like oppresor, why don’t he have open debate with Gilad Atzmon so we all can see who is logical n truthful here. I want to see that really.

Palestinians are at the heart of the conflict in the M.E Palestinians uprooted by force of arms.. Yet faced immense difficulties have survived, kept alive their history and culture, passed keys of family homes in occupied Palestine from one generation to the next.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? - Kahlil Gibran